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Gooner I missed your comments. Thanks for the ample discussion. Yankee trade felt light to me as well, though I do like all the players there. If I could do it over again the trades would be a little tighter.

I don't really understand the animosity towards this. Who cares if it is busy, and if there are a lot of moves? The exercise Gato is trying to accomplish here is to build a competitive team without bankrupting the future.

If one can get past the DeJesus brothers, it isn't a bad blueprint for how to achieve that. There might be a few nits here and there, but on the whole, it isn't a bad starting point for discussion.

You understand that "realistic" and "filled with good ideas" aren't the same thing right? I LOVE what he did. But that does not make it realistic.

Well Hamilton's average salary is only off by 5 million and Greinke's contract is only off by a an extra year and 5 million. I wouldn't say they were far off so much as I was being entirely too optimistic there. I've thrown higher numbers for both out, but those are the ones that I ended up putting there for no particular reason.

Not that this needs anymore explaining anyway...should just go off into the land of the forgotten posts.